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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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